A seminar to attract interest in students and researchers in the MicroWatTS project and water reclamation was held at the Biological Sciences Department within the University of Catania on the 5th of November 2019.
Dr. Maria-Antonietta Buccheri provided an overview of the project , discussing the societal challenges that it is meant to address, the main goals and the partners participating in it. She also described the importance of nanotechnology, the applications which have already reached the market and the potential ones that are being developed by research groups all over the world. After that, she focused on photocatalysis, on the properties of photocatalytic nanomaterials and how these ones would be employed for greywater disinfection within the MicroWatTS projects. The first results obtained were presented as well. Many interesting questions arose during the questions session and, at the end, the audience was invited to see the “aging facility”. The aging facility is one of the innovative approaches adopted by project to study the evolution of nanostructured surfaces after exposure to flowing greywater under solar irradiation.
The audience was mainly composed by Master students who were interested to learn more about an interdisciplinary research project like MicroWatTS, its underlying idea and its developments. Some researchers were present as well and showed interest in collaborating with the MicroWatTS team in the future.
